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It's Friday! And the news is:

Apple's Q3 2024 earnings call highlights:
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Microsoft classifies OpenAI as competitor amidst AI landscape changes:
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🤩 Striking!

Saudi Arabia plans to build a futuristic renewable energy stadium → in its smart city The Line as part of its bid to host the 2034 World Cup.

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🌀 Increased appetite

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Llama 4 will require ten times more → computing power to train than Llama 3, emphasizing the need to increase capacity to stay competitive.

Meta's capital expenditures rose nearly 33% to $8.5 billion in Q2 2024 from $6.4 billion a year earlier, reflecting its significant investments in servers, data centers, and network infrastructure to support these advancements.

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🤝 "Friend in a Necklace": The AI Buddy You Can Wear

Meet "Friend," the world's first AI-powered necklace → designed to be your friend for $99. This wearable device is not just a tech gadget but a companion that listens, engages in conversations, and offers advice through text messages on your smartphone.

Friend can respond to your questions, provide encouragement, and even initiate conversations. It connects via Bluetooth, and you interact with it by simply pressing a button on the pendant. Although it doesn't talk back, it sends replies directly to your phone.

Friend is always listening and forming its own thoughts, ready to offer a comment or engage in a chat. Privacy is ensured with end-to-end encryption, and users can delete memories with a single click in the app. Currently, the device supports only iOS, with potential Android compatibility depending on demand. The AI necklace is available for pre-order and is expected to ship in early 2025, initially in the US and Canada.

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It's Thursday! And the news is:

Google unveils new 'open' AI models emphasizing safety:
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OpenAI to give U.S. AI Safety Institute early access to new model:
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🔝 Meet the Mini App Store!

The Mini App Store launched today. Highlighting successful mini apps that use Stars, it makes them easy to access for the more than 500 million users who interact with Mini Apps every month (out of 950 million Telegram users per month).

Mini Apps developers can add a Launch app button as well as demo videos and screenshots to their bot profile.

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🦄 First look

iPhone 16 colors and redesigned camera bump revealed →

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It's Wednesday! And the news is:

Neuralink rival Synchron enables thought-controlled Apple Vision Pro for ALS patient:
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Apple developing heart-based unlocking technology for future devices:
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🤝 SIGGRAPH 2024: AI and Future Tech Innovations

At SIGGRAPH 2024, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg discussed AI advancements and applications.

The event → showcased AI's integration into virtual worlds and graphics, with Huang highlighting NVIDIA's AI hardware and generative capabilities, and Zuckerberg focusing on AI's impact on social media and personalization. Zuckerberg also introduced AI Studio and discussed the future of smart glasses.

The talk covered AI breakthroughs, ethical considerations, and future trends in computing. In a fun twist, Zuckerberg gifted Huang a limited-edition jacket, hinting at new high-tech conference swag trends.

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It's Tuesday! And the news is:

Instagram starts letting users create AI versions of themselves:
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SpaceX prepares for first private spacewalk with billionaire adventurer:
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🤖 iRonCub3: The First Flying Humanoid Robot

Researchers from the Instituto Italiano Di Technologica (IIT) have unveiled iRonCub3 →, a humanoid robot equipped with rocket thrusters and a jetpack. This innovative project aims to make iRonCub3 the first flying humanoid robot. The robot features a new titanium spine and heat-resistant covers to manage extreme temperatures from the jet engines.

iRonCub3 is being tested in a specialized flight and control area to improve its hovering capabilities. Researchers are developing control algorithms to regulate altitude and position during flight.

The team has faced challenges such as managing extreme temperatures, integrating aerodynamics with neural networks, and combining high and low-bandwidth actuators. Despite these obstacles, the IIT team is optimistic about iRonCub3's potential to revolutionize humanoid robotics.

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It's Monday! And the news is:

Apple delays Apple Intelligence to iOS 18.1 in October:
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𝕏 training Grok AI on user tweets without notification:
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🤖 KT2 Kungfu Turtle: The Multifunctional Desktop Robot

Seattle-based tech company Wair Living and KameRobotics have developed the KT2 Kungfu Turtle, a pocket-sized robot → designed for productivity and fun. KT2 is equipped with a powerful operating system, performing acrobatics, physical sparring, and autonomous return functions.

KT2 features a Pomodoro timer for work intervals, movement prompts for stretching, and a pushup challenge timer for fitness.

In Game Mode, KT2 offers 99 built-in games, from battles to puzzles. With vibration and touch sensors, KT2 responds to emotions and gestures, making it a thoughtful companion for home or office.

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🚨 Like emergency FaceTime

In upcoming iOS 18, iPhones will have the option to stream live video → during 911 calls, enhancing emergency response capabilities.

This feature is part of Apple's expanding Emergency SOS offerings, which already include Crash Detection, messaging via satellite, and location sharing.

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It's Friday! And the news is:

OpenAI unveils SearchGPT, a new AI-powered search engine:
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Reddit blocks all search engines except Google as it implements AI paywall:
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💭 Rumor time

Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has revealed new details → about the upcoming "iPhone 17 Slim," set to debut next year.

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It's Thursday! And the news is:

WhatsApp to introduce AirDrop-like feature for iPhone users:
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Tesla to have humanoid robots for internal use next year, Musk says:
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🐶 Good dog!

Researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology have developed a vacuum-footed robot dog → to clean up litter on beaches. Named VERO, the robot uses depth cameras and a neural network to identify and remove litter.

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It's Monday! And the news is:

Microsoft releases tool to fix Windows machines affected by CrowdStrike issue:
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Apple continues AI innovation with new open-source language models:
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✨ Planetary exploration

NASA's Curiosity rover accidentally discovered pure sulfur crystals → on Mars, an unprecedented find since elemental sulfur on its own has never been observed there before.

This unexpected discovery in the Gediz Vallis channel challenges scientists to explain how these sulfur crystals formed in a location previously not associated with such conditions.

Finding a field of stones made of pure sulfur is like finding an oasis in the desert,

said Ashwin Vasavada, Curiosity's project scientist.

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